Machine for cutting paper for paper twine



1. a. WORTENDYKE.

Machine for Cutting Paper for Paper Twine, &c.

' Patented Sept. 13.1864.

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v MACHINE FOR CUTTING To all whom'it r rtdy concern.-

of Goodwinv purposes; following is a in the art to make and use the same, reference I being had to the accompanying drawings,

device for cutting paper from a continuous roll into strips.-

for cutting paper for the manufacture of pafor other purposes w cut into narrow strips.

' ers, as'herein cut strips are wo and without subjecting the former to any unand constructed in any proper manner to sup- I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. WOBTENDYKE, OF GOODWINVILLE, NElV JERSEY.

Specification forming part of Letters itknown that I, J. B. WORTENDYKE, ille, in the county of Bergen and State-of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved machine for cutting paper for the manufacture of paper twine, and-for other and I do hereby declare that the.

full, clear, and exact descriphich will enable others skilled tion thereof, W

making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side sectional view of my invention,'taken in the line 00 m, Fig. 2; Fig.2, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new and useful The invention is designed more especially per twine, but it may be advantageously used here paper requires'to be The invention consists, first, in the e;nployment or use'ot' two rollers in connection with a grooved cylinder and acylinder of cutters arranged in such a manner as to insure the proper cutting of the paper in an expeditious manner.

The invention consists, secondly, in the employment or use of two sets of receiving-rollshown and described, whereby the cut paper strips are wound upon their respective blocks' without the liability of one strip lapping over or upon the block of the strip contiguous to it.

, The invention consists, thirdly, in a novel manner of attaching the blocks on which the und to their shafts, whereby tly on the blocks the strips are wound compac due strain or tension.

A represents a framing of rectangular form,

port the workingparts.

B is a cylinder placed horizontally on the framing A, and having a roller, 0, at veach side of it, the axes of the rollers G 0 being in the same horizontal plane. These rollers C may be covered with felt, india-rubber, or

cylind PAPER. FOR PAPER TWINE, &c.

Patent No. 44.249, dated September 13, 1864.

other suitable material to give them a surface which will be yielding or pliable to a certain degree.

Directly over the cylinder B, and in the same axial plane, there is a cylinder, D, which is provided witha series of circular cutters,

E, at suitable and equal distances apart, said cutters working or fitting in grooves a, made circumferentially in the cylinder B, so that the periphery of the cylinder D may work in contact with that of cylinder B. The journals of the cylinder D are fitted in slotted uprights b at each side of the framing A, with set-screws c in their upper ends, by which the pressure of D on B, or, rather, the pressure of D on the paper which passes between D and B, may beregulated as desired.

E- is a roller placed on the framing A, at one end of it, and having the paper which is to be cut wound upon itin a continuous roll, and at the opposite end ofthe framing there are placed two shafts, F F-one above the other-- and on these s the cut paper strips are wound. are placed,

These blocks are not keyed on their shafts,

being secured thereon by friction, which result is obtained by a piece of india-rubber, 11, inserted in ahollow screw, 6, passing into the blocks radially from their peripheries. The

rubber 01 may be made to press in a greater or less degree on the shafts F by turning or adjusting the screws 0.

Between the blocks G and upon the shafts F disks H may beplaced. I

The paper to be cut passes from the roller E underneath the rollers 0 (land over the er B, the rollers O 0 keeping the paper snugly dowmon the upper part of B, so that the cutters E can act in the most eflicient manner in' cutting the paper into strips. This feature of the two rollers G G, placed at opposite sides of the cylinder B, is an important one, for, whether the tension to which the paper is subjected in passing through the machine be greater or less, it cannot affect the proper action of the cutters on the paper, for the latter will always be pressed snugly over the cylinder B. The strips as they are out are wound upon the blocks G on the two shafts F F, the strips passing alternately from Y the cutters to the blocks on the two shafts. By this arrangement or division of the blocks hafts the blocks G, on which instance, one of the stri the latter are not placed in c paper strip of one block e: strip on the block t. The disks H k quired distance apart, sired, be of greater diameter than the blocks, in order to serve as guides for the strips while being wound upon the blocks. By having the blocks G secured on the shafts the paper is prevented from being subjected to any undue tension, which would occur in case of the roll of paper being of an irregular thickness, and it insures the strips being wound compactly on theblocks. Iu'case,f0r ps is subjected to a in being wound on its the latter will beheld stationary and lil] it,.until the ontact, and the lnnot; lap over the considerable tension block G its shat't F allowed to slip wit tension is reduced dueed h\' he sprin turn me mock.

In working the machine, power is applied adjoining or contiguous to cop the blocks G at the rel and they may, 1t. (10- l I! by friction so that the friction pro g or rubber d is able to to-the cylinder B and motion communicated therefrom to the shafts F by a belt, a.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The two rollers (J (3, Q the cylinders B D,-arr each other, tiall angedrelatively with to operate in the manner substany as and for the purpose herein set forth. 2 The employment or use of two or I shafts, F F, to receive the blocksthon V I the cut paper strips are wound,substantially as and'for the purpose specified.

3. In coxnbinatioirwitll the cuas stated, the securing ot' the blocks G shafts F by means of a frictio purpose of allowing each separate orindependent mov tially asset l'o'rth. JOHN B. WORTENDYK'IL I onthe n device, for the emcnt, substan- Witnesses:

WM. 1. M CNAMARA J. I. HALL.

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